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   <h1>Plain English For Lawyers</h1>
   <h3>Docente</h3>
   <p>Rita                 Tineo </p>
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     <strong>UNIT 1: Language Basics:</strong><br />
     Parts of Speech. Basic sentence syntax. Punctuation. Tone in writing.                 Uses of Tenses and modal verbs. (May vs. Shall). Uses of prepositions:                 (under vs. Pursuant to)<br />
     Use of Abbreviations. Capitalization. Italicization. Numerals.<br />
     Achievement of a more original writing style in business letters.                 Tone and Style for letters, e-mails.<br />
     Different forms of address.</p>
   <p><strong>UNIT 2: Principles of Legal                 Writing: </strong><br />
     Plain English for lawyers. Guidelines. Simplification of legal language. <br />
     Structure and words. Grammatical structures to avoid. <br />
     Legal affectations and other nasty habits.<br />
    Guide to effective writing </p>
   <p><strong>Unit 3: Document Design</strong><br />
     Legal drafting: Court documents Vs client documents. <br />
     Revisiting legal texts into Plain English.<br />
    Plain language vocabulary. </p>
   <p><strong>Unit 4: Rules of legal interpretation </strong><br />
     Guidelines provided by ISO 9001. <br />
     NARA regulations<br />
    The Securities and Exchange Commission Drafting Rules</p>
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     <strong>LEGAL CONCEPTS TO HANDLE</strong><br />
     General principles of Contract Law. Offer and Acceptance. Consideration.                 Liability of parties. Breach of Contract. Termination of Contracts.</p>
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